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Unknown Island North

"Unknown Island North" is culled from Annie Dillard's 1977 "Holy the Firm". A metaphor for a new thought on the horizon, it is "a new island, a new wrinkle, the deepening of wonder." Dillard finds various names for it as she sketches this new thing onto her drawing of the Puget Sound islands visible from her window. I suppose here, in my own way, I am seeking to name the things that most capture my attention as I look out at the world from my perspective. What follows is a record of what I see.

: Name: Lira; Location: Siskiyou County, California

Reclusive twenty-something. Married for seven years now to an honest-to-God Prince Charming. Mischievous Christian. Vegan with raw vegan aspirations. Fond of black lace. Cabin-dweller, soon-to-be little-house-in-the-woods-dweller. Constantly online: might as well be physically plugged in to the power outlet and the local server. Holds a BA in Religion, and a Raw Vegan Associate Chef & Instructor certification. Has worked in child care, education, special education, youth ministry, and children's ministry over the past fourteen years. Reads books like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Writer, artist, and musician. Laboriously learning how to dance. Utter scatterbrain. Adores Lewis Carroll's Alice in all her various incarnations. World just gets curiouser and curiouser every day.

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Sometimes The Story tracks you down, jumps you in the dark, then holds you hostage, all the while insisting through vehement whisperings that you write it into being, "Now!"

Today, Lira feels

moon phases

Lira's Latest Avatar:

Doll by eLouai

Great :

Yevaud's Get

Sasha

Murien

Zara

Aledanthar

Tribble Wynken

Pip

Sparks and Huey

Sooty

Urlana

Lira's Cybergarden:

Enter Garden

My assembly of cyberpets and cyberplants was painstakingly selected from some very special web image adoption centers. Many thanks to:

for Yevaud's Get and Zara

for Sasha

for Murien and Pip

for Aledanthar

for Tribble Wynken

for Sparks and Huey

for Sooty

for Jinx

for Urlana

for my Alice Plushie profile image and the Evil Plot Bunny

...and

for many of the lovely cyber- plants in my garden.

Note: Please do not steal the pets or other pretties you see on my blog. Each image links to its original web location. Go enjoy the artists' websites for yourself.

Visits since June 2005

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Writing Goeth Well

Amazingly so, actually. I've worked on the NaNo writing 9 days out of 10 so far. I've put in a total of 24 hours and 45 minutes of actual writing time, at an average rate of 13 words per minute.

Yeah, I've always been a slow writer, but I think I'm getting better. Also, this year, while I do get tired, I'm not running out of story steam. If I follow the butt-in-chair principle, the words flow down out of the ether and appear like magic on my OpenOffice screen. It's kinda creepy.

And I am so pleased with myself!

Ten days in and I'm sitting at 19,224 new words for this thing. Tomorrow I start afresh with Chapter 28. Chapter 20-freaking-8! I do a happy dance now. I totally rock.

Labels: creative projects, NaNoWriMo, writing